There are several controls that ship for free in the Visual Studio XAML toolbox. One of them is the ProgressRing, a neat, animated ring of dots that goes round and round and round. Developers use the ProgressRing to indicate to the user that something is working, loading, or just doing something where the user should wait.

But what if you wanted to do more without splitting the atom? Could you build your own, custom progress in that super-charges the branding of your Windows app? ..

Continuing their data protection through encryption episodes in their "Build Your Cloud" series, Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze explore Azure Key Vault, a new feature found in Azure that increases security and control over keys and passwords used in cloud apps and services.

[1:20] Let’s chat about Azure Key Vault and some of the recently announced features from the Ignite conference.

In today's long-awaited episode (bahaha), returning GoingNative guest Gor Nishanov talks about how you can take advantage of await/co-routines to do your own asynchronous programming (and more!) with speed and ease!

Paul and his team at CloudCoreo have an ambitious goal and an awesome product.

The goal - to make dev ops for cloud solutions simple and collaborative. What if the entire description of your architecture were stored in a GitHub repository, you could choose for it to be either public or private, and your whole team could easily contribute changes and maintain a history of changes? ..

TV Everywhere's Vidcoding solution encodes video that works across a wide range of devices and platforms. Vidcoding simplifies the encoding process, which can be highly complex, while also meeting the challenges that scaling can present. ..

During this video, we will introduce the PowerShell "configuration" keyword, which enables us to build declarative configuration documents that will help us to declare our "infrastructure as code." Once we build a basic DSC configuration document, we will invoke it to generate the MOF files, and then deploy the DSC MOF files to the local system. ..

James Quick welcomes Javier Dutan, CEO of Sabor, a Restaurant Point of Sale System built for Windows tablets. Listen in as he provides us with a brief demo of his company, demos his solution as well as discusses how he uses Microsoft Azure and the BizSpark program. ...

Why pick between exercise and productivity when both are possible? Walkway, powered by Azure and a Windows 8.1 app, enables people to walk at a workstation while surfing the Internet and charging devices. ...

Welcome back to Ping! We talk about the return of robot combat return to television, we chat about a one-way ticket to Mars on the space desk, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about...

Dundas Data Visualization, Inc., a global provider of business intelligence and data visualization solutions, announced Dundas BI – its customizable dashboard, reporting and visual analytics software – is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. With a browser-based and consistent user experience across any data source and on any device, Dundas BI makes it easy and quick for users to access, analyze and visualize their data. ...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through the download of the Windows 10 SDK and the latest Sysinternals tools. We harvest the Debugging Tools for Windows, Windows Performance Toolkit, and Application Verifier files from the SDK. ...